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Samuel Robinson Award Winners
2008 Samuel Robinson Award recipients from left to right, Andrew Whaley, Rhodes College, Laura Neely, Queens College, Emma Ouellette, Alma College, photograph provided by Columbia Theological Seminary. The Samuel Robinson Award is made to students attending Presbyterian-related colleges and universities in the spring of the student's junior or senior year. Eligible students recite the answers to the Westminster Shorter Catechism and write a 2,000 word essay on an assigned topic. The 2008 topic for Samuel Robinson was “If you were responsible for providing opportunities on your campus to reach out to students struggling with their faith, what would you do?”
Among the ten Samuel Robinson Award winners for 2008, three students from three Presbyterian-related colleges and universities, met at Columbia Theological Seminary where they started Greek School. Their essays will be featured through the month of August starting with Emma Ouellette  and Andrew Whaley. They are joined by Laura Neely, a graduate of Queens University of Charlotte.
Laura Neely Essay
I remember my first day as a student on my college campus of Queens University. That day will be etched into my memory as the beginning of a new era of my life; full of fear and of hope. Fear, because leaving my hometown seemed like leaving behind everything I was familiar with, and coming to a place as foreign to me as Dorothy must have felt when her house dropped from the sky into Oz, but at least she had the familiarity of her own house. I also had hope because I knew that college was a part of growing up. In college I would learn about the world, learn about myself, and figure out how I fit in this great big world. Leaving home felt like losing all that I built up in the first eighteen years of my life and that is where I gained perspective through my faith. I knew the God was going to watch out for me, and teach me many lessons as I made my way through college. [Read more]
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